Speed Awarenesss Course

[gina32]

Have you attended one and do you think its made any difference to the way you drive?

[grasscarp]

Yes. I now avoid going over 30 in the road where I was recorded doing 37.

[gina32]

is that teh only place you keep within the limit???

[gina32]

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[vulcan42]

Yes, after the course I had my speedometer checked and found when I thought I was driving at 30, I was actually doing 33, so I aware of this difference. It probably wouldn't have made any difference to my offence as I was driving at 45 in a 40 mph area.

[grasscarp]

Well it is the only place ever that a camera has registered me speeding Gina, in 47 years of driving, so I am very cautious now on that particular stretch of road.

[jennyjoan]

how would you go about going on a speed awareness course - i am thinking my little car is a little too speeded up and then so am I

[Mamyalynne]

Get flashed by a speed camera is one way Conne.

[grasscarp]

You get offered a speed awareness course if you were slightly over the limit. So it is an option you can accept or reject. If you accept it you pay for it (around hundred pounds) and - a good reason to take - you do not get points on your licence.

[vulcan42]

jennyjoan, the speed awareness course isn't run by the Police but by the AA, perhaps they organise a "non criminal " version, might be worthwhile contacting them.

[thesecondlaw]

Yes, I've attended one. No, it hasn't made any difference to the way I drive. I was 'caught' doing 46 mph in a 40 mph limit. It was a lapse in concentration, and I'm still kicking myself for doing it. I'm generally travelling at the speed limit, or below. I need my licence to do my job, and I drive probably 60,000 miles a year. I'm sure the course is a good thing for drivers that regularly travel above the speed limit.

[Old_Geezer]

I haven't but know folk who have. Yes they tend to be rather nervous and make for hesitant drivers afterwards. It's bound to happen when strict authorities opt to jump all over decent folk for minor infringements.

[SirOracle]

Don't have this in Scotland.

[Old_Geezer]

Not just the AA vulcan. I think the RAC run them too; and I know someone who went on one run by TTC. So I guess there are a number of trainers.

[catswhiskas]

Yes , I did , found it very informative, and afterwards I did drive more carefully, but after a while it wears off and you go back to your old ways.

[thugulike]

Yes I have attended and it wasn't the course that changed the way I drive but the fear of further points on my licence. I live in a very small town and thee were a number of people I knew on the same course. We were noisy and I think the tutor was on the point of losing control, especially as there was a forensic scientist from police HQ on the course as well who challenged much of what the tutor said. It was bum numbingly boring

[ummmm]

I used to work at the place that held them and bring them coffee and biscuits. They all looked so bored.

[cazzz1975]

same as cat whiskers for me as well, I am more mindful with my driving generally, that could be because I am older.

coffee and biscuits ummmm? the one I went to just had a tea/coffee machine and no biccies!

[ummmm]

They were held at the cricket club in one of the boxes so no machines. Cups etc were already set up in the boxes so we'd bring tea and coffee in those big insulated pots...and a plate of biscuits.

[Old_Geezer]

Biscuits ?!? At "around hundred pounds" it oughta be iced cake & champers.